Timing Belt Change - First Time in 22 Years and 183,000 Miles (1 Viewer)

[Vagabond1929]

2000 Land Cruiser built in December 1999 with 183,000 miles. First time doing the timing belt. Here are a few photos. Replaced with OEM Mitsuboshi belt. Looks like the rubber has dried out a bit however after more than 22 and a half years I suppose that's to be expected. Truck operates in a hot and humid sub-tropical climate year round.

 

[Asanka]

How's the condition of the water pump?

 

[Vagabond1929]

The water pump was original and was functioning perfectly with no leaks but was changed when the timing belt was done.

 

[BullElk]

Looks like a pretty new belt. Even the few newer belts I’ve seen have those slight cracks. Your experience is the norm and my experience on all of my copies.

 

[UltraFJ40]

Nice work, it looks good to me and not surprised to see it's condition.

I changed mine around 150K miles. I accidentally tossed it on the ground next to the new one along with a number of other misc parts. When I returned from answering a telephone call it took me a few minutes to identify which one was the new one. After closely examining them I found a small chunk out of one and determined that must be the old one so I continued the mission.

I kept the old one to use as a strap wrench cuz I'm a cheap bastid.

 

[Tareq]

Thanks for the pictures!

Mine is late 2002 from Japan and I assume it it is the original belt with 78k miles today, 20 years.
Since the water pump is good & not leaking, I will keep driving it until 100k then change it.